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...nation's veterans, led this raid with customary eagerness and cunning. He had wangled the bill out of committee. "Passage will do much to relieve a real need," he declaimed. Members fell over one another rushing to the well to add their voices. Said Massachusetts' motherly Republican Edith Nourse Rogers: to turn the bill down would be "a very cruel thing." Pennsylvania's Republican James
...conclusion, however, in which an almost saintly village matron releases the floodgates of a dam to inundate her beloved Dolwyn, seems incredibly out of keeping with the rest of the picture. The matron, nevertheless, is almost always a believable and winning person, played with great tenderness by Dame Edith Evans...
Efficient Edith Helm, White House social secretary, was momentarily nonplussed. At a press conference someone said he had heard that Bess Truman "used to beat even the boys at mumblety-peg when she was a child in Independence. She used to pull the peg out with her teeth, too." Quickly rallying, Mrs. Helm replied: "That's an esoteric rite of the player. I used to play it myself...
...after 10, the vote was in, and Clement Attlee's government had suffered its first parliamentary defeat: 283 to 257. One exuberant Tory borrowed an old Laborite victory cry. "We are the masters now," he yelled. On the government benches, Morrison flushed and fidgeted. Minister of National Insurance Edith Summerskill stared blankly into 'space. Only Clement Attlee saw the joke. Attlee threw back his head and roared with laughter. As the defeated Laborites filed from the House, the Tories shouted, "Resign, resign!", waved their handkerchiefs in farewell...
After athletics were largely transferred to Soldiers Field in 1898, the building was put to other uses and was renamed for Annie Rotch and her children, Edith and Arthur, contributors to the Lawrence Scientific School...